It seems to have been a long time since I reached a milestone cache – My 4,000th cache was the first ‘Meet the Mega Committee’ event we held back in January 2016, over three and …
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I’ve mentioned Nicholson House before, the former headquarters of the 18 Plus Federation in Newent, Gloucester.
For several years we used to go down and stay there, here’s a few pictures recording the antics of our …
This was probably my last weekend away of the year, not in tents this time, but at a caravan park in Hunstanton Norfolk – and with the same people that I was camping with earlier …
Of course, we didn’t always spend our time in drunken debauchery, sometimes we did more gentle things… One Sunday back in 1991 we went to the National Trust property at Beningborough Hall near York for …
A dry Saturday morning and apart from a bit of shopping I had to do I could spend the rest of the day caching. So I set off towards Ilkley to start off with a …
Top Farm near Wakefield was a venue we used several times in the late 1980’s, mainly for the JAC weekend camping events, but in 1988 it also hosted the Yorkshire Area Bonfire Bop.
Back in 1987 …
Apologies for not posting as regularly as I’d promised over the last few days… I do have an excuse.
I finally got a sum of money I had been waiting for since July and so decided …
For some reason almost all the Waffledale group were, if not keen, then at least willing to go camping. Which was good cos there were a lot of camping events to go to… this particular …
Another random packet of photographs pulled from the drawer and this time it’s the ’88-’89 New Years Eve Dance
As I recall we used to have great NYE dances, this was the second one that was …
There are many caches in the Motorway Mayhem series all up and down the country (and probably over the waters as well). They are designed to break up a tedious journey. The locations are within …
October 24th 2009 – Pump house (N Yorks) GCBDA5 – Cache #168
This is a virtual cache, a virtual cache according to the rules of the game is –
“a cache that exists in a form of …
This is the song we lovers of water sing,
We can’t go wrong we’re happy as a King,
We beat the drum as we march along,
We crash the cymbal and bang the gong,
We sing our song The …
‘Oh what a night, Late September back in sixty three’…. erm, no… actually ‘Oh what a night, Late June nineteen eighty nine’ – What a very special night. The venue was the Northgate Arena in …
As we saw in the last post, Andrew Perry was the son of William and Sarah Perry. From the 1861 & 1871 census’s we can see that William Perry was born in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, …
Eventually the lockdown was given an end date and we were told that businesses would be opening as normal again in mid-June so things were going to go back to what was being called ‘the …
The 25th Anniversary of WASH was little different to all the previous 24 – but then, that’s the way we like it !
The major difference this year was that the dates for WASH had been …
Quite often the most entertaining part of our Saturday night excursions wasn’t the dance, but the journey, especially when we were all traveling together in a minibus, this method of transport did take a lot …
